“Success usually comes to those who are too busy be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
Quotes to consider:
“Without precision of meaning we damage not simply language, but thought. The language we share is beautiful and alarmingly complex. Try as we may, we are all likely to make mistakes, and very few among us can claim to know the English language to perfection. But we try.” Robert Davies
“For know you well, my dear Crito, that to express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.” Socrates, in Plato’s Phaedo
Available for conferences by appointment, 6:45-7:30AM, Monday through Friday; starting August 22, 2011
Course Objectives: Ultimately, this course should help students do well on the AP Language exam. The exam takes place during the first two weeks of May.
Specific skills emphasized in the class are:
Critical close reading, thinking, and analysis
Recognizing the successes and failures, strengths and weaknesses, truths and fallacies of various texts
Understanding and critiquing, as well as using, rhetorical strategies
Formulation and development of arguments
Research strategies and conventions
Conscientious and successful writing that is clear, coherent, and “correct”
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
Quotes to consider:
“Without precision of meaning we damage not simply language, but thought. The language we share is beautiful and alarmingly complex. Try as we may, we are all likely to make mistakes, and very few among us can claim to know the English language to perfection. But we try.” Robert Davies
“For know you well, my dear Crito, that to express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.” Socrates, in Plato’s Phaedo
AP Syllabus:
Available for conferences by appointment, 6:45-7:30AM, Monday through Friday; starting August 22, 2011
Course Objectives: Ultimately, this course should help students do well on the AP Language exam. The exam takes place during the first two weeks of May.
Specific skills emphasized in the class are:
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